A DRUNKEN teenager stabbed a man when he was asked to leave a house where the residents were watching TV, a court was told yesterday.

The 16-year-old produced two kitchen knives and started waving them in the face of Jonathon Hart, 26, who was sitting down.

The knives, one eight and the other five inches were near his face and neck, and Mr Hart grabbed one from the youth’s hand before he and another man tried to push him out the house but he felt a sharp pain in his thigh as he was stabbed, said prosecutor Michael Walker.

Mr Hart staggered from the house, knocked on a neighbour’s door in Elkington Walk, Middlesbrough, and an ambulance and police were called. He was taken to hospital, receiving four stitches.

A witness told police the teenager was very angry and drunk and had been swinging the knife in his hand before he stabbed Mr Hart.

He returned to the house later with another youth saying, “I’ve stabbed Jonnie, who’s next?”

Soon afterwards police arrived but the teen, who cannot be named, did not reply to their questions, Teesside Crown Court was told.

Paul Abrahams, defending, said photographs of the house showed drugs paraphernalia was already there when the youth arrived with a friend.

Mr Abrahams added: “He is a young man who lacks direction and lacks maturity. A supervision package would help him. He has voluntarily taken help from a drug abuse organisation.”

The judge, Recorder Andrew Sutcliffe QC, said: “It appears you had got into the wrong company and it is a tragedy you have had to appear before this court to be sentenced for such a serious offence.”

He received a two-year community rehabilitation order with six months intensive supervision and surveillance package, and a three-month tagged curfew between 7pm and 7am. The youth, now 17, of Priestfields, Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to the May 22 unlawful wounding.